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Sabotage Studio initially projected sales of 250,000 copies of Sea of Stars in the first year. They hit that target within just a week. (lemmy.world)
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Source tweet: https://twitter.com/seaofstarsgame/status/1699175546930766092

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[-] Ashtear@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I didn't say popular, I said mainstream. Zelda isn't often claimed by the genre, and Pokémon was literally the only other multi-million seller in the genre in the west.

Earthbound is the very definition of a cult classic, and Dragon Quest wasn't even getting localized at that time.

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